Posts Tagged 'officiating'

Working With The Officials

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Working With The Officials

Bruce Weber stated it best, “It’s not just the opposing team that the players and managers want to defeat; they want to get the better of anyone in their way, the umpire included. This essential aggression is built into the game, and it’s something an umpire has to recognize and accept before he can handle himself effectively on the field.”

As a coach, you have to interact with officials in lacrosse. In fact, the rules require it. For instance, only a ...

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Rockin’ the USL LAREDO Training

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Rockin’ the USL LAREDO Training

The following article may be found here: http://www.uslacrosse.org/TopNav2Left/Officials/MensOfficialsInformation/RockintheUSLLAREDOTraining.aspx

I get to toot my own horn a little bit here! I am very excited to report that I am attending a LAREDO (LAcrosse REferee DevelOpment) clinic in Vail, Colorado this summer. US Lacrosse did a short story on the LAREDO program, and I was asked to contribute a few quotes about it. Here is the full article:

Officiating a high school boys’ lacrosse game in ...

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Referee Versus Coach

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Referee Versus Coach

This morning I fired up my trusty news app, and started seeing what the world was up to. I went into the sports section and was compelled to read the story with this title: “Referee and coach brawl at second-graders game.” According to the Tennessean, ”a police report says that as [the coach] was leaving the court he grabbed [the referee], and then [the referee] responded by pushing the ...

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Complaining Versus Adapting

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Complaining Versus Adapting

This is a tale of two vastly different coaching strategies that I witnessed during a game I officiated this past summer. My partner and I made various calls throughout the game. Some against one coach, some against the other. Both of us were pissing each coach off. So as far as I was concerned, we were doing our job just fine. Although I noticed something different about one of the coaches. He might have been mad at a call, but ...

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Officiating Clinic

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Officiating Clinic

As I mentioned in this week’s first post, Andy Halperin and I are putting on an officiating clinic on Sunday, September 4th. We will cover the basic rules each youth official needs to know, as well as whistle blowing, flag throwing, penalty reporting, conducting faceoffs, and lots of signaling. It is absolutely free of charge, as we want as many youth officials as possible to go through the training. Only 5th-12th graders are permitted to ...

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So You Want to be an Official?

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So You Want to be an Official?

You have read Every Lacrosse Signal, and Off The Book Rules. Now you think you might want to be a lacrosse official. As a current official who loves my job I highly encourage any person to pick up officiating. So long as you don’t mind a job where:

  • You make fifty percent of the spectators angry
  • You are always wrong
  • You are expected to be perfect
  • You are responsible for keeping players safe
  • Everyone thinks they ...
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Every Lacrosse Signal

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Every Lacrosse Signal

This week is Rules/Officiating week. Two quick things before we dive in: The last post of the week will detail an officiating camp open to all 5th-12th grade AYL players, and any parents who are interested in officiating. Second, I will be detailing youth rules that may not be implemented in your local league. I highly encourage fellow youth lacrosse leagues to consider implementing one or two of the rules I will discuss that drastically improve player skills and are ...

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How Did You Miss That?

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How Did You Miss That?

Officials are not supposed to miss a penalty. They are also never supposed to make mistakes either. Not only are they not supposed to make mistakes, they are expected to be perfect throughout the entire game. Fans scream at coaches who sub out their favorite player. They laugh derisively when an opponent misses an easy ground ball. However, they save their scorn for the official. A person who is subject to the same amount of human error as any other ...

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